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Definition of "solid-hoofed" [solid-hoofed]

  • Solidungulate or soliped; whole-hoofed; not cloven-hoofed. See cut under solidungulate.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "solid-hoofed" in a sentence
  • "Someday the genetic engineers will come up with a solid-hoofed pig: Kosher bacon!"
  • "For it is the largest animals that produce one, e.g. the elephant, camel, horse, and the other solid-hoofed ungulates; of these some are larger than all other animals, while the others are of a remarkable size."
  • "But there are none in the mule; the useless part of the nutriment is discharged with the excretion from the bladder — this is why male mules do not smell to the pudenda of the females, as do the other solid-hoofed ungulates, but only to the evacuation itself — and the rest of the nutriment is used up to increase the size of the body."